Sunday, July 09, 2006
You gonna eat that?Animal scientists use the term "anthropomorphism" to describe what many people do, ascribing human traits, motivation and thinking (you've got to be kidding me) to animals like dogs. If a dog could talk, this is what he would say. Oh puh-lea-se, utterly ridiculous! It's the notion of "I know how you feel because I can walk a mile in your shoes," but how do you apply it to a dog that wears no shoes and no clothing? Especially when the dog is already at a more advanced stage of evolution than you. So, forget it.
Well, forget it some people apparently cannot. There is a Japanese online store called Dot Wan that specializes in selling human food made for dogs. Now it's true that dogs do want some types of people food, like your steak cooked medium rare, or the hamburger you just finished grilling before you smother it with gooey ketchup and mustard, or the bag of chicken you just brought home but haven't put away in the freezer yet. But that's not what Dot Wan sells. Because this is a Japanese company, they naturally concentrate on Japanese food, and in this case Japanese human food, which makes it doubly yucky.
Unfortunately it's not raw fish or anything good like that, but what they have is regular, everyday human food. Some examples: Fruit cookies in kiwi, avocado and blueberry flavors, pre-packaged cups of mixed vegetables (usually in Japan "mixed" means cucumbers but here the vegetables are pumpkin and sweet potato), rice and tofu yogurt, miso soup, and a disgusting fermented bean dish called natto that even most Japanese people don't touch. To make the human food more appealing, Dot Wan also offers human-style dishware for the dogs, such as ceramic bowls made exclusively for them by a famous pottery maker in Okinawa.
All this just doesn't make sense to me. Do dogs insist on making people eat dog food (I mean, usually), and act convinced that it's good for them? Here is your dinner Joe, a bowl of delicious Alpo lamb and rice, or chicken liver, or delicacies like raccoon roadkill or the dead opossum the huskies dug up behind the shed. So if you think you might not like that, then stop shoving weird stuff like sweet potatoes and soybeans in their direction. Now if you really want to be anthropomorphic, let the dogs sleep in your bed, rub their bellies, or open the yard gate and let them run off-leash. That's when we are really talking in the same language. Woof!
- posted by Woofwoof @ 6:07 AM
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Hahahahaha. Yeah, where do these people get this idea they know what dogs would say if they could speak? Totally preposterous!
# posted by 
: 09 July, 2006 10:42
: 09 July, 2006 10:42
Ok, that's disgusting, but do they also put an egg on top of everything? The human woman showed me a site that had a pizza with an egg on top. What's up with that? All of that human food they could eat and they throw the strangest stuff on there. Also, what's up with those designer dishes. The humans pay a gazillion dollars, wait months, then go eat and its a piece of lettuce with a swirl of raspberry something in a design and they call it gourmet.
Give me a dead bird any day.
Give me a dead bird any day.
Connecticut,
I have no idea. Some people are really weird.
Schmoo,
Dead bird, dead cat, dead chipmunk, dead opossum, dead squirrel, all delicacies. They smell good, taste great, and are less filling.
John,
Krispy Kreme, I hope?
Turbo,
That's the Wendy's of watermelons.
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I have no idea. Some people are really weird.
Schmoo,
Dead bird, dead cat, dead chipmunk, dead opossum, dead squirrel, all delicacies. They smell good, taste great, and are less filling.
John,
Krispy Kreme, I hope?
Turbo,
That's the Wendy's of watermelons.
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